Issue May 15-21 2024: The Financial Capabilities Study, conducted by the Financial Consumer Office (OCF) and the General Superintendence of Financial Entities (Sugef) and funded by the Development Bank of Latin America, revealed that 53% of Costa Ricans lack sufficient savings to sustain themselves for over three months without income.

Issue May 15-21 2024: On May 18, Daniel Ortega reappeared to criticize the national banks, accusing them of being complicit with individuals, media, and organizations his regime has confiscated, labeling them as “scammers.”

Issue May 15-21 2024: UNICEF reported that over 30,000 minors and adolescents crossed the Darien jungle between January and April, a 40% increase compared to the previous year.

Issue May 15-21 2024: Brazilian LGBTI groups want to challenge municipal and state laws that prohibit the use of gender neutral/inclusive language.

Issue May 15-21 2024: Released on April 22, the State Department’s latest annual human rights report details gross violations and abuses committed by El Salvador in 2023, becoming the starkest compilation ever made by a foreign government about President Nayib Bukele’s two-year state of emergency.

Issue May 15-21 2024: Panama’s Former President Ricardo Martinelli’s popularity helped boost José Raúl Mulino’s win at the May 5 presidential elections.

Issue May 15-21 2024: Latin American countries are following the footsteps of the United States and Europe by placing tariffs on Chinese imports.

Issue May 15-21 2024: Ecuador’s Attorney General attempted to detain a group of locals, police officers, and Chinese citizens thought to be jointly involved in a fuel trafficking network supplying fuel to illegal mining operations in the Amazonian province of Napo.

Issue May 15-21 2024: Four Guatemalans have been extradited to the United States, where they face international drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas.

Issue May 15-21 2024: Cuban authorities continue to do nothing to help Diannis Milena Pérez Agüero, a 20-year-old mother who lives with her four children in a state of penury.